Marketing bag



W. H. KNIEP.

MARKETING BAG. APPLICATION FILED JUNE H, 1920.

1,419,739, Patented June 13, 1922.,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. KNIEP, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGN'OR TO GRAHAM PAPER COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

MARKETING BAG.

Application filed June 17,

. citizen of the United States, residing at t e city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Marketing Bags, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a marketing bag and has, for its object the provision of means for permitting the person using it to inspect its contents without removing such contents.

A shopper or person engaged in marketing generally has a variety of items on the mind and needs easy access to the contents of such a bag as this to determine whether or not a certain article has been purchased. In practice, it has been found not enough to be able to put the hand in from the top and to move the contents around and to look at them from the top. This invention is auxiliary: thereto and supplies the needed last step of efliciency that enables easy and convenient inspection of the contents of such a receptacle.

In the accompanying drawings forming art of this specificatiom in which like numiiers of reference denote like parts wherever or green-grocers tut having a window therein.

The bag 1 may be of any form, size, or material. The window 2 may be of any form or size, and may be placed in any location on the bag 1. There may be as many windows 2 as desired, as, for instance, there may be a plurality of the same in the front wall where window 2 is shown in the drawings,

There may, also, be one of such windows or a plurality of such windows in any of the other walls of bag 1, or, if desired, in all the said walls.

The window 2 will be closed with a piece of transparent material 3 which may be of any size or shape, and the same will be ,attached to bag 1 in any suitable manner, but

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June13, 1922.;

1920. S eria1No.389,779..

preferably by adhesive'et. For the sake of cheapness the said transparency 3 will-preferably be ofpaper.

The transparency 3 may be of any material and it may be attached at part of its side edges or at all of its periphery by the adhesive 4 to either the inside or outside of the bag, but preferably to its inside. In case glass or mica or celluloid or the like were used as the closure or transparency 3, a pocket or other means (not shown in the drawings) will be necessary to attach it-in place, instead of the adhesive 4.

Constructed as thus described, the bag as a whole is eflicient, cheap, and convenient, and fills a long-felt want for the uses and purposes aboveedescribed.

Another use to which this invention may be put is intuts or containers such as are used by grocers, green-grocers, and other merchants, to contain goods put up by them for sale, especially in self-service grocery stores and the like, affording prospective cus tomers an opportunity to look through the window in the tut to see the contents of the bag. This does away with the necessity of labels or writing on the bags to denote their contents, and is a great convenience to customers. It allows the merchant to put up in advance as many packages of any article as he desires. He then sets them out on a shelf or other place where customers can see them. Thecustomers look through the window 2covered by the transparency 3.

Having thus described this invention, I hereby reserve the benefit of all changes in form, arrangement, order, or use of parts, as it is evident that many minor changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of this invention or the scope of the following claim.

I claim: I

An open topped bag adapted for marketing and formed of material capable of being rolled and folded comprising a body including opposite side portions provided with means to facilitate gripping the bag, each side portion having an inspection aperture therein and said apertures being in alignment to permit the observer to see entirely through the bag, and flexible transparent sheets. covering said opening for preventing v articles within the bag from falling out.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature.

WILLIAM H. KNIEP. 

